Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing
On 5 November 2014 14:32, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
I'm a clueless end user with two laptops, one large boat-anchor Dell
i5 that is my 'typing box' and another X60 that I actually carry
round. Sid gives me a fully functional desktop that runs well on an 8
year old laptop with 2Gb of ram. Amazing really.
> 1. What are your issues, reasons for doing so - general and/or specific?
Vague sense of unease at the rate and direction of technical change,
not limited to init system and associated daemons and services.
> 2. What are you considering, evaluating, or otherwise thinking about?
Considering for typing box: Getting off the escalator for a couple of
years by using gNewSense (Debian based fully libre distro. V3 based on
Squeeze, forthcoming V4 based on Wheezy). I have a wifi card that uses
a fully free driver on the Dell.
Considering for X60: WM ontop of X with systemv and pmount for the
laptop I carry round. Printing not really needed. See
http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/osd.html
> 3. What other options/initiatives are you aware of that you've discarded or
> otherwise are not considering, and why?
OpenBSD 5.6 very nice, but little advantage over WM + Jessie with
pmount. (toad/daemons for auto-mount breaks suspend on my hardware).
OpenIndiana (Illumos kernel) very interesting and educational to try,
but really 2005 ish. Booted and installed fine on a testing laptop.
Killer was font rendition, suspend and available applications. Yes, I
am an end user :-)
Cheers
--
Keith Burnett
http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/
Reply to: